XPde 0.5 - A Linux Desktop for Windows Users

Posted by michael on Saturday April 3, 2004 @10:01PM from the sincerest-form-of-flattery dept.

Nissan Dookeran writes "From the website: 'The XPde Team today announced the immediate availability of XPde 0.5.0, a complete rewrite of the XPde desktop environment...XPde aims to recreate the Windows XP desktop environment on Linux in order to allow Windows users to "feel at home" in front of a Linux computer' Full announcement of release here with screenshots here. Might be a good transitional tool for Windows users looking not wanting to give up their eye-candy interface initially. The main page also has a good PDF document regarding legal issues when developing software that emulates Windows functions. A StarOffice version of the document also available."

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Morphix LiveCD of XPde by Gandalfar · 2004-04-03 22:06 · Score: 5, Informative

g1powermac already created a livecd using Morphix that has xpde5 inside. Just boot it using desktop=xpde5 boot parameter. It will default to 0.4.2 since xpde5 is still lacking some of the features. Sourceforge download
Re:I'm not convinced by that PDF by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-03 22:36 · Score: 4, Informative

Uhh, those icons are from the crystal icon set that comes with a lot of linux distros. They may look similar to the XP/2k icons but they're certainly not direct copies of the Windows icons.